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Acton Institute Samaritan Award |
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Acton Institute's Center for Effective Compassion offers a Samaritan Award, which is designed to recognize America's leading charities. One winner receives a cash award and runners-up receive consulting services packages. |
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Alec Dickson Servant Leader Award |
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Created in honor of Alec Dickson, this award recognizes leaders who have displayed courage, compassion, and creativity to overcome barriers and positively impact the lives of young people. |
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American Red Cross Woodrow Wilson Award for Exemplary Youth Volunteer Service |
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This award goes to a young person under 21 in recognition of his/her contributions to the American Red Cross and the community. Nominations are made by chapters. National Headquarters Awards/Recognition Committee, Red Cross National Office of Volunteers, 8111 Gate House Road, Falls Church, VA 22042. (703) 206-7410 |
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Americorps Education Awards |
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Upon successful completion of a term of service as an AmeriCorps member, students are eligible for an education award to help payment for authorized educational expenses or repay qualified student loans. |
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Angels in Action |
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The Angel Soft Angels in Action Awards program rewards children who perform exemplary acts of service to benefit a community, charity or cause.
Angel Soft rewards children between the ages 8 and 15 with a monetary award and a year's supply of Angel Soft bath tissue.
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ASCD Outstanding Young Educator Award |
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The ASCD Outstanding Young Educator Award recognizes education professionals, 40 years of age or younger who demonstrate exemplary commitment and exceptional contribution to the profession. The recipient is profiled in Educational Leadership, receives ten-thousand dollars, and is honored at the ASCD Annual Conference and Exhibit Show. |
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Brick Awards |
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Each year, Do Something honors outstanding leaders under the age of 18 who use their talents to take action that measurably strengthens their local communities in the areas of community building, health, and the environment. Age restrictions apply. |
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Campus Compact Awards Program |
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This site includes links to information about the Ehrlich Faculty Award for Service-Learning, the Swearer Student Humanitarian Award, links to other awards, grants, and fellowships. |
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Center for Effective Compassion Samaritan Awards |
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Part of the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion & Liberty, the Samaritan Awards identify up to 10 exceptional predominantly privately funded charities that help individuals break the cycle of dependency by providing help that is direct, personal, and accountable. Prize amount awards are up to 10,000 dollars.
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Christopher Columbus Awards Program |
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Sponsored by the Christopher Columbus Fellowship Foundation in cooperation with the National Science Foundation, these cross-curricular national competitive awards combinesscience and technology with community problem-solving in a real-world setting. With the help of an adult coach, students under the age of 18 work in teams to identify an issue they care about and use science and technology to develop an innovative solution. This is science and community involvement at its best. Team grant awards range from 200 dollars to the finalist award 25,000 dollars to implement winning ideas in their communities.
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Citizen Activist Award (The Gleitsman Foundation) |
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The 2004 award will honor those who have struggled to improve K-12 public education in order to give each child the basic education necessary to succeed in our fast-changing world. The honorees will share 100,000 dollars and each will receive a specially commissioned sculpture designed by Maya Lin. |
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Clay Aiken ABLE to SERVE Awards |
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Sponsored by Youth Service America and The Bubel Aiken Foundation, twenty-five grants up to 1,000 dollars each are available to encourage young people with disabilities, between the ages of 5 and 22, to plan and execute service projects in the United States for National Youth Service Day.
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Community-Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH) |
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This award recognizes exemplary partnerships between communities and health professional
schools that build on each other's strengths to improve health professional education, civic responsibility, and the overall health of
communities. |
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Congressional Award: America's Award for Youth |
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A public partnership created by Congress to promote and recognize achievement, initiative, and service in America's youth, the U.S. Congress' award for young Americans is non-partisan, voluntary, and non-competitive. The program is open to all 14- to 23-year-olds who can earn bronze, silver and gold certificates and medals. Each level involves setting goals in four program areas: volunteer public service, personal development, physical fitness, and expedition/exploration. |
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Coverdell Award for Excellence |
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Each year the Peace Corps selects several exceptional educators to receive the Coverdell Award for Excellence. The award pays tribute to educators who exhibit outstanding participation in the Peace Corps' Coverdell World Wise Schools global education program. |
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Daily Points of Light Award |
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Each weekday, this award honors one volunteer or volunteer effort that has found innovative ways to meet community needs, efforts which often lead to long-term solutions and impact social problems in their local communities. Award Certificates and winners are featured on website and nominations are accepted year-round. |
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Elliot L. Richardson Prize for Excellence in Public Service, The |
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This award recognizes extraordinary, sustained accomplishment and integrity in government service and to encourage achievement by future public leaders at the level Richardson demonstrated in service to his country. |
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Ford Radical Renovation: School Edition Award |
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Ford's Radical Renovation: School Edition is challenging classrooms to plan ways to make their school more eco-responsible. The class that comes up with the best plan will win 100,000 dollars for an environmental renovation. |
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Gloria Barron Prize for Young Heroes, The |
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This national award honors young people from diverse backgrounds,ages 8 to 18, who have shown leadership and courage in public service. |
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Harold Howe II Youth Policy Fellowship Award (32K pdf) |
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The AMERICAN YOUTH POLICY FORUM (AYPF) of Washington, D.C. announces the 2004 competition for our annual Fellowship award to a promising young scholar or practitioner. The Fellow will carry out a self-designed project on significant issues in youth policy, practice, research or program evaluation, focusing particularly on disadvantaged youth. The Fellowship is supported under a grant from the Ford Foundation. The Fellowship will be available for work commencing in the Summer or Fall of 2004. |
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Harris Wofford Awards, The |
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Sponsored by Youth Service America and State Farm Companies Foundation. One award is given to an individual between the ages of 5 and 25 who has demonstrated exemplary commitment and action to involve themselves and other peers in service, youth voice, service-learning, and civic engagement activities. A second award recognizes an institution (national, state, or local nonprofit organization, a Foundation, or a Corporation) with demonstrated record of activity and impact devoted to youth service, youth voice, service-learning, and civic engagement.
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Hesburgh Awards |
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The Hesburgh Award honors faculty development programs in the field of service-learning. Each year the award is presented to a faculty development program judged to have best met three criteria: significance of the program to higher education; appropriate program rationale; and successful results and impact on undergraduate teaching and student learning.
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Howard R. Swearer Student Humanitarian Award |
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Campus Compact member presidents recognize five students each year for their outstanding public service and provide financial support toward their continued efforts to address societal needs. |
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Idealist.org: Nonprofit Design Contest |
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This new competition "seeks to promote excellence in design in the nonprofit sector and to reward and acknowledge those designers who move beyond limitations to create works that are functional and aesthetically powerful while also promoting social impact." Awards include software and hardware donated by contest sponsors. |
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Idealist.org Nonprofit Design Contest |
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Action Without Borders's Idealist.org is sponsoring its first annual design competition for nonprofit organizations in the categories of Web, print, and multimedia to promote excellence in design in the nonprofit sector. |
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Independent Sector Awards |
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Includes The John W. Gardner Leadership Award, The Leadership IS Award, and The Virginia A. Hodgkinson Research Prize.
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ING Unsung Heroes Awards Program |
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These awards are given to K-12 educators pioneering in new methods and techniques that improve student learning. Applications are judged on their innovative teaching methods, creative educational projects, and ability to make a positive influence on the children they teach. |
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Jefferson Awards, The |
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The Jefferson Awards are presented on two levels: national and local. National award recipients represent a "Who's Who" of outstanding Americans. On the local level, Jefferson Awards recipients are ordinary people who do extraordinary things without expectation of recognition or reward. |
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National Caring Award, The |
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The Caring Institute seeks to identify, honor, and reinforce the activities of particularly caring Americans - those whole ennoble the human race by transcending self in service to others. |
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National Rising Scholars Award |
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Originally the Kellogg Forum, five awards are sponsored by the National Forum on HIgher Education for the Public Good, the Association for Institutional Research, the American Association for Higher Education, the American Educational Research Association, the Association for the Study of Higher Education, and the American College Personnel Association. Awards are made to pre-tenured faculty, early career practitioners, and advanced graduate students who engage in research that explores higher education's role in serving the public good. |
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National Schools of Character Awards Program (CEP) |
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This Character Education Partnership annual awards program recognizes K-12 schools and districts demonstrating outstanding character education initiatives that yield positive results in student behavior, school climate and academic performance. Although winners may differ in method, content, and scope, all emphasize core ethical values such as honesty, respect, responsibility and caring. |
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National Science Board Public Service Award |
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The National Science Board (NSB) established the Public Service Award in November 1996. The annual award recognizes people and organizations who have increased the public understanding of science or engineering. The award may be given to an individual and to a group (company, corporation or organization), but not to members of the U.S. Government. |
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National Science Foundation (NSF) Director's Award for Distinguished Teaching Scholars |
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The National Science Foundation (NSF) seeks to promote improvement in the education of those who study science, technology, engineering, or
mathematics (STEM). The NSF Director's Award for Distinguished TeachingScholars (DTS) recognizes and rewards individuals who have contributed
significantly to the scholarship of their discipline and to the education of students in STEM, and exemplify the ability to integrate their research and educational activities. This program seeks to recognize those faculty who bring the excitement and richness of scientific discovery to a broad spectrum of students. |
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National Science Foundation (NSF) Presidential Awards |
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The National Science Foundation (NSF) administers several awards programs in partnership with the White House. These programs provide Presidential awards that denote remarkable achievement by outstanding scientists, engineers, and educators who demonstrate exceptional leadership in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and STEM education. Includes: National Medical Science, the Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching (PAEMST), the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), and the Presidential Awards for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring (PAESMEM). |
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National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) Science Teacher Awards |
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This award honors kindergarten–college teachers who have made extraordinary contributions to the field of science teaching. Awardees recieve a formal citation, three nights' hotel accommodation, and funds to attend the NSTA National Convention. |
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National Service-Learning Conference Awards |
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Nominations are being accepted for three awards
honoring outstanding leadership and inspiration to the service-learning field. All recipients will be honored at the 2004 National Service-Learning Conference in Orlando, FL and will receive complimentary travel and registration to attend the conference. |
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President's Student Service Awards |
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The awards recognize young Americans for outstanding community service. All full-time students from kindergarten through college who contribute at least 100 hours (50 hours for younger students) of service to the community are eligible. |
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Prudential Spirit of Community Awards |
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The Prudential Spirit of Community Awards recognize students in middle and high school grades who have demonstrated exemplary community service. |
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Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teaching |
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The Cherry Award program is designed to honor great teachers, to stimulate discussion in the academy about the value of teaching, and to encourage departments and institutions to value their own great teachers. The winner of the Cherry Award will receive a large monetary prize (200,000 dollars for 2006-2007) and will teach in residence at Baylor University during a fall or spring semester; travel expenses and a furnished apartment are provided. To further Baylor University’s commitment to great teaching, the winner’s home department will receive a monetary prize (25,000 dollars in 2006-2007).
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Samuel Huntington Public Service Award |
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This award provides an annual stipend for a graduating senior to pursue public service. The award allows recipients to engage in meaningful public service activity for up to one year before proceeding on to graduate school or a career. |
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Service-Learning Emerging Leaders Initiative |
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Through the Service-Learning Emerging Leaders Initiative, local, state, tribal, regional, and national organizations and public-sector agencies host emerging leaders, ages 25 to 35, who have demonstrated a commitment to making a difference in the lives of young people, schools, and communities. The emerging leaders are employed by the host organization for a period of two years — building organizational capacity and a new generation of diverse service-learning leadership. |
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Sherry Unger Award, The |
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Every other month, the Maryland Student Service Alliance website features a different noteworthy service-learning project on their homepage. The featured project receives a 0 cash recognition award for use on future service-learning projects, and is listed in the project idea archive for others to emulate! |
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Skoll Foundation: Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship |
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Social entrepreneurs are people and organizations who apply innovative solutions to pressing social problems, empowering communities and other groups to mobilize resources and develop opportunities for improvement and change. Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship support scaling up or replication of innovative programs to a level where they can achieve systemic social change. |
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Spirit of Service Awards, Corporation for National and Community Service |
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These awards pay tribute to the most outstanding participants in each of the Corporation's programs - Senior Corps, AmeriCorps, and Learn and Serve America. Recipients in the Learn and Serve America category can include a student, educator, or Service-Learning Program.
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State Farm Service-Learning Practitioner Leadership Award |
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This award recognizes a teacher, youth worker, or community member who has created a living legacy by equipping young people to lead and serve. The recipient must also have served as a model of leadership, helping to nurture others in the field to expand their service-learning knowledge and skills. |
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State Farm Youth Leadership for Service-Learning Excellence Award |
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Supported by the State Farm Companies Foundation, this award recognize K-12 service-learning programs that uniquely demonstrate youth leadership for service-learning excellence, defined as incorporating key elements of high quality service-learning, and having a sustainable impact on the participants and the broader community. |
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Temple Awards For Creative Altruism |
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The Temple Awards for Creative Altruism is presented annually by the Institute of Noetic Sciences to one or more individuals or organizations whose work embodies the inspirational light of unselfish service motivated by love. Click on About, Inside IONS, Grants and Awards. The award fund is divided among recipients selected by an independent jury. |
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Thomas Ehrlich Faculty Award for Service-Learning, The |
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Campus Compact recognizes and honors one faculty member each year for contributing to the integration of community or public service into the curriculum and for efforts to institutionalize service-learning. |
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Yoshiyama Award for Exemplary Service to the Community |
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This Award recognizes exemplary service and community involvement rather than academic achievement. The Award is presented to high school seniors, and is accompanied by a monetary gift. |
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YouthActionNet |
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YouthActionNet grants awards to youth leaders and their emerging projects that promote social change and connect youth with local communities.
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AT&T CARES Youth Service Action Fund, The |
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The fund supports young people as they improve their communities through service on National Youth Service Day. Fifty grants are available to young people (ages 5-25) and organizations to implement service projects for National Youth Service Day. |
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Comcast Foundation Leaders of Tomorrow Scholarship Program |
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To be eligible for a Leaders of Tomorrow scholarship, high school seniors must be nominated by their principals. Scholarships are awarded to high school seniors in recognition of their community service. |
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Dollar General Community and Back-to-School Grants |
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Dollar General’s community grants program provides support for non-profit organizations committed to the advancement of youth literacy initiatives. The Dollar General Back-to-School grant program awards (7) grants to assist schools in meeting some of the financial challenges they face in implementing new programs or purchasing new equipment, materials or software for their school library or literacy program. |
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Dow Grant Awards |
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The Dow Chemical Company has made available 20 million USD in grant funds to support proposed initiatives concentrating on math and science, teacher training, and parental involvement for K-12 school districts. Grant proposals should focus on giving K-12 students science and engineering
experiences, giving teachers the training to provide these experiences, and fostering parental and community involvement. School districts and
school boards nationwide, as well as programs that promote systemic education reform in math and science, are eligible to apply. Special
attention is given to school districts around communities where Dow is located. |
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mtvU Grants |
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mtvU Grants will help fund a new student-run community service organization, or a new project being undertaken by an existing organization. Grants are awarded for original ideas about how to make the world, or a campus, a better place. Winners may be featured on mtv News. |
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Nestlé and RIF's Very Best in Youth |
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Co-sponsored by Nestlé USA and Reading Is Fundamental (RIF), the Nestlé and RIF's Very Best In Youth honors 30 young people who have made reading a priority and in the process have made tangible contributions to the quality of life in their communities. Award recipients are featured in a special publication and honored at a ceremony. Nestlé also donates funds in the name of each winner to the charity of his/her choice. |
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Nickelodeon "Let's Just Play" Grants |
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Nicelelodeon will provide grant funding to schools and after-school program to provide resources to create or expand opportunities for physical and healthy play. Between twenty-five to fifty grants, ranging from 5,000 to 10,000 dollars, will be awarded annually. |
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Toyota TAPESTRY Grants for K-12 Science Teachers |
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The Toyota TAPESTRY program awards annual grants of up to 10,000 dollars each and "mini-grants" of to K-12 science teachers. Interested teachers should propose innovative science projects that can be implemented in their school or school district over a one-year period. |
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